Trey said he wrote Foam under Ernie Stires's wing and that Ernie taught him to write in that particular style. He dedicated Foam to Ernie's two children Ernie and Liz (both in attendance) and to Ernie as well. Adeline was performed without microphones. Brother was dedicated to Page's brother and Mike's brother (who were standing somewhere in the room), with Trey joking that it was "written to sort of describe their personalities... sort of a combination of the two." Guelah was introduced as a song "about a mother." He explained that this was about Dave's (Dave Abrahams's) mother, Guelah, who used to come in when he and Dave were writing songs and that when "things were getting fun," she would knock on and open the door and pull Dave out into the hall, hence the line "and through the bedroom door intrude a fretful frown and spoiled the mood. And though I never really stand that tall, she tilt my frame, she watched me fall." Fish was introduced during I Didn't Know as "Filling in for Showboat Gertrude... Zero Man!" Walk Away was played for the first time since October 20, 1990 (123 shows). Mo' Better Blues was teased prior to Squirming Coil.
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This show was part of the "1991 Fall Tour"

Show Reviews

, attached to 1991-10-18

Review by Anonymous

(Published on the legacy Phish.net site many years ago...)

The entire Great American Music Hall show smoked. One highlight for me was Split Open And Melt, which I may have heard at my first show but had never heard since.

I was afraid the first encore was sounding like Highway To Hell, a song I frankly despise, but was surprized to hear it turn into James Gang's Walk Away. Cool. I thought the words to the Sparkle which followed were

"Laugh and Laugh and Fall Apart" rather then "Laughing Laughing" etc.

Does anyone know for sure? An excellent Squirming Coil closed the evening.

Henrietta's folks had the seats next to mine on the balcony and seemed to be having a wonderful time. Earlier that evening while I was waiting outside they had arrived in a taxi, and the father came out with a camera to photograph the marqui with Phish's name on it 8-). They seemed to be very proud parents.

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